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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27357-7
EAN 9780571273577
Published to celebrate the centenary of William Golding's birth. A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by ...
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She Wolves
The Women who Ruled England before Elizabeth
- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23706-7
EAN 9780571237067
The boy in the bed was just fifteen years old. He had been handsome, perhaps even recently; but now his face was swollen and disfigured by disease, and by the treatments his doctors had prescribed in the attempt to ward off its ravages. Their failure could no longer be mistaken.When Edward VI - Henry VIII's ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27664-6
EAN 9780571276646
'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I traveled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain . . .'So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story ...
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The story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd's death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. I say my father and my mother, ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23890-3
EAN 9780571238903
In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like flick-knives... Ambitious and talented people flocked to court of George II and Queen Caroline in search of power and prestige, but Kensington Palace was ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27661-5
EAN 9780571276615
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Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27663-9
EAN 9780571276639
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27665-3
EAN 9780571276653
The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of ...
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The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27508-3
EAN 9780571275083
"The Story of English" is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe; today, in one form or another, it is spoken by a billion people around the world. More widely scattered, ...
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May 24th 2011 is Bob Dylan's 70th Birthday. The dozens of pieces collected here follow not only recordings, but performances, books and movies. Together they comprise a portrait of just how Bob Dylan reinvented the landscape of American song.
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abriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be decided. Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23512-4
EAN 9780571235124
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25474-3
EAN 9780571254743
In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime of the new world, time's cunning passages, the poet's place in all of this - with a passionate intensity and drive that ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27015-6
EAN 9780571270156
'I lost my own father at 12 yrs of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in hell if I ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27016-3
EAN 9780571270163
Set onboard an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour-de-force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass.
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 8,15 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23577-3
EAN 9780571235773
For two hundred years after Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including Sir Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford - have been proposed as their true author. Contested Will unravels the mystery of when and why so many people ...
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25336-4
EAN 9780571253364
The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to ...
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Krapp's "Last Tape" was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958. This volume brings together Krapp's "Last Tape" and Beckett's other shorter works or 'dramaticules' written for the stage. It is arranged in chronological order of composition.
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